Bob Morris @ Apr 25th 2008 22:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Live streaming video from 150+ news and weather outlets worldwide. Just launched. Click a stream to watch it live. Also has a separate video screen with announcers who alert you to breaking news. This could become an entirely new way to view news.
Mashable has more.
Bob Morris @ Apr 25th 2008 17:43 - Category: Unfiled ;
Unmanned solar-powered capable of staying aloft for five years may be coming soon to a sky above you. While the technology here is way cool, are we moving towards a society where will will always be watched? Or is that already happening?
Bob Morris @ Apr 25th 2008 12:34 - Category: Climate change ;
No really, I think it is. Judging from reading a multitude of blogs and real estate websites, and after talking with a real estate investor friend in L.A., it appears a tentative bottom may be forming in some of the worst hit areas. Is there more pain coming? Sure. But prices have dropped 30-40% in some areas, and that’s starting to interest investors. Call them vultures or call them long-term investors, but they are the ones who will create the bottom as they move in and start buying and holding for several years or to rent for income.
Bob Morris @ Apr 25th 2008 07:50 - Category: Unfiled ;
Plastic dinnerware can now be made from pig urine!
A Danish company has developed a way to extract urea as well as other useful products from pig urine and manure.
Smokers: You’ll be may be startled to learn that urea is used as a “flavor enhancer in cigarettes.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 25th 2008 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
Al Qaeda increasingly faces sharp criticism from once-loyal sympathizers who openly question its ideology and tactics, including attacks that kill innocent Muslims.
Zawahiri attempted to answer such criticim on a video
“The deaths of any innocents were the result of “intentional error or out of necessity. . . . The enemy intentionally takes up positions in the midst of the Muslims for them to be human shields for him.”
This argument of course is garbage. The deliberate killing of civilians is ethically loathsome and is considered terrorism by any definition. Hamas, Israel, all sides in Sri Lanka, and the US military in Iraq sometimes try to justify the slaughter of non-combatants by saying the opposition is hiding among them - as if that somehow justifies killing innocents.
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